ROBINSON: Democrats must play offense on Obamacare

2:42 PM,
Mar. 17, 2014

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EUGENE ROBINSON

Here is what Democrats should learn from their party's loss in a special House election in Florida last week: Wishy-washy won't work.

Republicans are obviously going to make opposition to the Affordable Care Act the main theme of their campaigns this fall. Democrats will be better off if they push back hard - really hard - rather than seek some nonexistent middle ground.

The contest between Democrat Alex Sink and Republican David Jolly in Florida's 13th Congressional District was almost like a laboratory experiment. The House seat was held for decades by the late C.W. "Bill" Young, a ...